According to Pickaway County Sheriff Matthew O. Hafey, on the morning of Oct. 27, Brittany M. Stroud was taken into custody in Columbus by the Columbus Police Department on an outstanding arrest warrant in connection with her 1-year-old child’s death.

The sheer size of investment in data centers is drawing concern as it surpasses all other historical booms and crowds out other more job-creating ventures.

For the second year in a row, Ohio spent more than a billion dollars on private school vouchers, this time for the 2026 fiscal year.

The Lynchburg-Clay eighth grade volleyball team finished their 2026 season as the Southern Hills Athletic Conference Division I regular-season champions and as SHAC Tournament runners-up.

With energy prices at record highs the week before election day, President Donald Trump announced Wednesday that the U.S. will receive one million barrels of free Venezuelan oil, promising that gas and diesel prices “will soon come plummeting down.”

On Sept. 24, 42 Hillsboro FFA members attended the Farm Science Review at the Molly Careen Agricultural Center in London. 

Nearly every week an individual is arrested, indicted or convicted in the U.S. on terrorism charges related to supporting the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham, a designated foreign terrorist organization. Nearly everyone prosecuted is Islamic. Nearly all are young men. 

These incidents were reported by the GPD.

I hope these grants encourage more people in Highland County to ask how their own gifts can serve someone else.